If anyone could have cured their child's adhd with diet, lifestyle and firm boundaries it would have been mine.
As I said upthread, I was born with horses at home and pretty much with them daily from birth, and vile parents aside had a privileged rural upbringing, pony club and roaming the countryside etc.
I never really had a sweet tooth and the closest we came to processed food was the odd shop at M&S, most things came from home or neighbouring farms etc. I recall mentally categorising spreads as the normal jam and the one with the label.
My mother was the type of parent that didn't believe being violently sick was a good enough excuse for a small child to make a mess, and was emotionally abusive to the point that even then I would have been taken into care if ss had bothered to look past the house and wealth. A dx of adhd would never have been considered a reason for showing some basic parental support, let alone an excuse for the huge and ever changing list of apparently unacceptable behaviour. My father generally just backed her up, but also thought smacking was a good way to cure impulsiveness. It didn't.
I was well behaved at school, barring the same occasional harmless moments in common with nt dc, and was able enough to do well even though my mind was often elsewhere. At home I was usually too busy trying to avoid my mother, or anything that would set her off, to misbehave, and in truth I was so pony mad that I would have spent every free moment outside either way.
The only thing I ever did that was 'bad' by nt standards were dangerous, impulsive things on occasion. And make my own entertainment at night when I didn't need to sleep like other dc.
I never really spent enough 1-1 time with my father to say, but he definitely had the hyperactivity and hyper focus. However various tales about other ancestors and memories of older relatives strongly indicate I was just the first to be dx.
@dadshere perhaps you should petition mumsnet for a fuckwit board where your bullshit opinions could be shared without you needing to publicly advertise your areholery to everyone in the high traffic areas. You could have a 'didn't exist in my day' section and a 'share your outdated google search results' one.
@KittyFantastico I'd bet on that too. 100yrs ago we just executed shell shocked soldiers, none of these wishy washy modern ptsd excuses.